Orchid Portrait (Orchid Flower & Plants Only)
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A variety of orchid growing in the Butterfly and Orchid Pavilion of the Tucson Botanical Gardens in Tucson, Arizona. I think (from serious Googling) that it is a Cattleya orchid--I could be wrong.
This is the orchid of my collegue. It is always in full blossom, not like mine ... Therefore I just had to take a picture. This way I keep the blossom as well ;-)
Longwood Gardens, Pa.
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Longwood Gardens.
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Longwood Gardens.
Many thanks to all who take the time to view, comment and fav my images.
Enjoy the day.
I photographed this orchid on Mother's Day in the San Diego Botanic Building in Balboa Park.
I wanted to emphasize the shapes and textures of the petals, so I used side lighting to create the shadows that reveal those qualities. Lit with a Yongnuo flash in an 8.6 inch Lastolite soft box hand held in front of the flower and below it at 4 o'clock. The flash was triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
I've photographed a lot of plants and flowers, because they're all around us, work cheap, and never complain. I have an album of these images with over 800 pictures, and for each one, I have described how I lit them, in case you're interested in that kind of thing.
Despite their name these orchids are not really flowering early this year. On a whole meadow full of them I found only this one plant that has already opened a few of its blossoms. It’s probably due to the cold and wet spring we’ve had.
By the way, according to the English Wikipedia the roots of these orchids were used by witches in love potions, and among its folk names are rather differing terms like “fool’s ballocks” and “Gethsemane” (apparently because “O. mascula grew below the cross of Christ, and the markings on the leaves are drops of Christ's blood”). I’m not entirely sure about the sources of all this, but I always enjoy reading about plants on Wikipedia 😂
Frog Orchid / dactylorhiza viridis. Barnack Hills and Hollows, Cambridgeshire. 04/07/21.
'A SEARCH WELL REWARDED.'
To locate 5 x Frog Orchids last weekend involved a meticulous search, despite me having a map and directions to the general area they grew in!
This is one of the little beauties I saw, standing at the dizzy height of just 5cms! The FOs were growing in close proximity to each other, on a slope of calcareous grassland in a medieval quarry. All of them had beautiful reddish sepals which was particularly pleasing, as a previous Frog encounter was with an all green plant.